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Current State of the Middle East

grampslcf August 17, 2026 No Comments

Promethean Action takes a look at the latest developments in the Middle East.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. is escalating economic isolation measures against Iran and forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will become “irrelevant” within two years. Meanwhile Energy Secretary Chris Wright argues shipping continues under escorts and rerouting, citing 8–9 million barrels/day still moving through the strait plus 6 million diverted via expanding pipelines. This statement puts the lie to Big Media’s claims about what is going on over there.

The fearmongers said oil prices would hit $200/barrel when the Iran war started. How accurate were those predictions? Everyone knows that $200/barrel did not happen. How close did we come? $180? Nope. $160. Nope. How about $140? Not even close. The top price for oil was just over $112/barrel. That was in early April. Currently it hovers around $80/barrel. It should continue to gradually decrease.

Canada & USMCA

grampslcf August 15, 2026 No Comments

If one thing has been clear since the beginning of Trump’s second term, it is that he prefers bilateral trade deals. America has negotiated many such deals in the last year and a half. Somehow the Canadian trade officials have missed this. The only reason we have a trilateral trade deal in USMCA is that Nancy Pelosi would not allow a bilateral deal with Mexico to go forward.

The Canadians are now threatening to leave the USMCA trade talks if Trump triggers 50% tariffs. How is threatening something that benefits the Trump administration a good strategy? Let’s be reminded that the Trump administration has already triggered the sunset provisions of the USMCA deal.

More Fraud

grampslcf August 14, 2026 No Comments

Ken Blackwell has published a piece on how the Biden administration gutted the HHS office that was responsible for overseeing the $2.2 trillion a year in taxpayer-funded health care payments. Health and Human Services processes about 4 million payment transactions a day across 50 states and five territories. When Xavier Becerra took over the department under the Biden administration, 80 people were assigned to program integrity. Becerra moved 76 of them out. This opened the floodgates for fraud.

A Whistleblower

grampslcf August 13, 2026 No Comments

With the release this week of TWA800: The Full Story—A Navy Whistleblower Comes Forward, filmmaker Brian Lerch has shown the power of AI to penetrate the shroud of secrecy around the July 17, 1996 destruction of flight TWA 800.

Central to Lerch’s documentary is the testimony of Navy vet, William Teele. Teele’s account of the events of that day were included in Jack Cashill’s 2016 book TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-up, The Conspiracy.

However, a few paragraphs in a book does not do justice to Teele’s testimony. Lerch dramatized Teele’s 15-minute narration by recreating the environment in which Teele operated. In the first 45 minutes of the video Lerch also laid out the details of the investigation into the crash, including its many failings. ...

Socialism…Morally Wrong

grampslcf August 12, 2026 No Comments

Now some may argue otherwise with this premise. However, a healthy discussion of various aspects of socialism should produce something of value. Discussions of socialism often find themselves discussing Ayn Rand and her views.

More Election Fraud

grampslcf August 11, 2026 No Comments

Is Mamdani’s win in the NYC mayor race tainted? As it runs out, nearly a quarter of the votes in Mamdani’s win came from unqualified voters.

I Am Not A Communist

grampslcf August 10, 2026 1 Comment

They keep changing the label. The label lies. The product never changes.

A CNN poll finds that about a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults now identify as democratic socialists. Call them communists and they act insulted. They do not understand what the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) stand for.

False Flag

grampslcf August 8, 2026 No Comments

Ukraine is fighting a media/propaganda war. Russia is fighting a ground war to take the territory that is populated by Russian speaking people. Ukraine has upped the ante lately and is trying to weaken the Russian civilian resolve to continue fighting. Putin has stated the war is existential for Russia. Ukraine continues to lose territory. The idea that Ukraine is winning this war is ludicrous.

Would both countries be happy if the war was over? Absolutely! However, to get there is to navigate a complex series of obstacles not the least of which is the EU’s desire to keep the war going.

The next story in this conflict seems to align with some of this in the ongoing Ukraine vs Russia narrative that has been assembled for consumption.

Save the Country

grampslcf August 7, 2026 No Comments

There is a switch on the table, and establishment Democrats are standing over it.

One side reads Democratic Socialist Party. The other reads Save the Country. Which way will the Democrats go?

Senator Chris Murphy went on Meet the Press after socialist candidates swept New York primaries and said he wants a big tent party. Senator Adam Schiff said the same thing this week on CNN. Then he went further. He acknowledged the DSA bylaws are pretty extreme, and said he would “rather be in that big tent in the majority” than sit in a smaller party stuck in the minority.

Fauci Fraud

grampslcf August 6, 2026 No Comments

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) dropped the hammer on Dr. Anthony Fauci last week during the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the federal government’s catastrophic COVID response. Johnson waved a massive stack of papers in the disgraced former NIAID director’s face and, at the same time, exposed one of the most brazen lies of the pandemic.

Johnson zeroed in on Fauci’s August 29, 2021 CNN appearance where the so-called “science” declared there was “no evidence” ivermectin was helpful against COVID. Fauci did this despite the fact that Fauci himself had suggested back in the early 2000’s that Ivermectin showed promise as an anti-viral agent.